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### CVS only : check the Changelog file for a really accurate description ### 1.0.29: Apr 1 2003 performance improvements especially for large flat documents bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace declarations with xsl:elements. portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris (Ben Phillips) ### 1.0.28: Mar 24 2003 fixed node() in patterns semantic. fixed a memory access problem in format-number() fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs in the process ### 1.0.27: Feb 24 2003 bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor) ### 1.0.26: Feb 10 2003 Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which could lead to a crash ### 1.0.25: Feb 5 2003 Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in libxml2-2.5.2 Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs. ### 1.0.24: Jan 14 2003 bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden), extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry) adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell) fix the API generation scripts API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks) added XML description of the EXSLT API added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter) Some memory leaks have been found and fixed document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs ### 1.0.23: Nov 17 2002 Windows build cleanup (Igor) Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating EXSLT various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns Documentation improvements (John Fleck) added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle) ### 1.0.22: Oct 18 2002 Updates on the Windows Makefiles Added a security module, and a related set of new options to xsltproc Allowed per transformation error handler. Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute lists ### 1.0.21: Sep 26 2002 Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie Bozeman), disable-output-escaping Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes Logos from Marc Liyanage Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), Windows (Igor), Python detection Documentation improvements: John Fleck ### 1.0.20: Aug 23 2002 Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat) fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users possible leak patches from Nathan Myers try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the cases Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem Fixed a few XSLT reported errors ### 1.0.19: July 6 2002 EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc) xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of libxml2 ### 1.0.18: May 27 2002 a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen, Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard Jinks) xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark Vakoc there is a new API to save directly to a string xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter specific error registration function for the python API ### 1.0.17: April 29 2002 cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by Igor a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal ### 1.0.16: April 15 2002 Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't save portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings ### 1.0.15: Mar 25 2002 Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..] templates Debug of memory alocation with valgind serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook processing revamp of the Windows build ### 1.0.14: Mar 18 2002 Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18) Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows portability fixes ### 1.0.13: Mar 8 2002 a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents" Improvement of the Python bindings Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date functions. ### 1.0.12: Feb 11 2002 Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones ### 1.0.11: Feb 8 2002 Change of Licence to the MIT Licence Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to extend the engine with functions written in Python A number of bug fixes Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions Portability fixes ### 1.0.10: Jan 14 2002 Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert) Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell level A few bug fixes ### 1.0.9: Dec 7 2001 Makefile patches from Peter Williams attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the documentation patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be made dynamic really fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML output patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger ### 1.0.8: Nov 26 2001 fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code cleanup patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking informations ### 1.0.7: Nov 10 2001 remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file ### 1.0.6: Oct 30 2001 bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce Miller) update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor) fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me) ### 1.0.5: Oct 10 2001 some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from Igor fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer) support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial contribution from Darren Graves) better handling of XPath evaluation errors ### 1.0.4: Sep 12 2001 Documentation updates from John fleck bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability improvements Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String, Time and Date core functions support ### 1.0.3: Aug 23 2001 XML Catalog support see the doc New NaN/Infinity floating point code A few bug fixes ### 1.0.2: Aug 15 2001 lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented improvements on the extension framework documentation improvements Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default ### 1.0.1: July 24 2001 initial EXSLT framework better error reporting fixed the profiler on Windows bug fixes ### 1.0.0: July 10 2001 a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed added a documentation for writing extensions fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William) added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc --profile option fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as expected added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the spec ### 0.14.0: July 5 2001 lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer the Windows MSC environment should be complete tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads ### 0.13.0: June 26 2001 lots of cleanups fixed a C++ compilation problem couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo() try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test with them fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek update to the Tutorial by John Fleck William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc ### 0.12.0: June 18 2001 fixed a dozen of bugs reported HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too) William fixed some problems with document() Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too) John Fleck added a tutorial Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if requested made xsltproc --version more detailed ### 0.11.0: June 1 2001 Mostly a bug fix release. integration of catalogs from xsltproc added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities document() should hopefully work correctly but ... fixed bug with PI and comments processing William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode ### 0.10.0: May 19 2001 cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete) fixed URI resolution in document() force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time, even if unused ... Fixed HTML default output detection Fixed double attribute generation #54446 Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451 More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList() added a documentation on the libxslt internals William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number() Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish) a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were submitting them ### 0.9.0: May 3 2001 lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite xsltproc should work with multiple params added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets should be faster using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded programs should work now fixed another batch of namespace handling problems Implemented multiple level of sorting ### 0.8.0: Apr 22 2001 fixed ansidecl.h problem fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id() sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations (requires libxml-2.3.7) fixes to current() and key() other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML stylesheets ### 0.7.0: Apr 10 2001 cleanup using stricter compiler flags command line parameter passing fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document() ### 0.6.0: Mar 22 2001 another beta requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support document() extension should function properly fixed a number or reported bugs ### 0.5.0: Mar 10 2001 fifth beta some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed) fixed problems with handling of tree results fixed a reported strip-spaces problem added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates a bug fix on for-each ### 0.4.0: Mar 1 2001 fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3 bug fixes some optimization started implement extension support, not finished implemented but not tested multiple file output ### 0.3.0: Feb 24 2001 third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2 lot of bug fixes some optimization added DocBook XSL based testsuite ### 0.2.0: Feb 15 2001 second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1 getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML and XPath support of libxml start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated stylesheets (in section I of the XML REC) Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of key() and document() is not complete ### 0.1.0: Feb 8 2001 first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0 lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete ### 0.0.1: Jan 25 2001 first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12 Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being feature complete Daniel Veillard